XAML Unleashed

HyperlinkButton

HyperlinkButton acts much like a hyperlink in HTML. It is similar to Button, but with a different default appearance and one more property: NavigateUri. This is the analog to the AREA (A) element’s href attribute in HTML. You can set it to a URL, and when a user clicks the button, it automatically launches the appropriate app to act upon the content.

Although HyperlinkButton has a Click event (inherited from ButtonBase), there’s no need to handle it thanks to its built-in behavior. If you want to perform a custom action, however, you could certainly leave NavigateUri’s value unset and perform that action inside a Click handler.

Figure 9.2 shows how the following three HyperlinkButtons appear:

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